Top 10 Favorite Ring of Honor Matches

[The Show Off]

On September 26, 2009 both Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness will wrestler for Ring of Honor for the last time (at least for now). And I'm pretty psyched because I'm going to said show in New York.

That all being said I'm a bit of a geek so when I'm psyched I like to make stupid threads where I get myself even more psyched. So if you hate Ring of Honor, or think indy wrestling is stupid, be for warned this thread is meant to be a celebration of excellence in wrestling outside of the mainsteam, and mainly ROH.

So here I'm going to list my top 10 favorite Ring of Honor matches and I invite all those who will to list their top 10 as well. And if you want to hate of ROH, you can do so as well...


Top 10
10. Nigel McGuinness (c) v. Bryan Danielson v. Claudio Castagnoli v. Tyler Black (Four Way Elimination Match for the ROH World Championship, ROH Death Before Dishonor VI)

9. Generation Next v. Jimmy Jacobs, John Walters, & The Second City Saints (Eight Man Elimination Tag, ROH Midnight Express Reunion)

8. Samoa Joe (c) v. Bryan Danielson (for the ROH World Championship, ROH Midnight Express Reunion)

7. American Dragon v. Christopher Daniels v. Low Ki (Three Way Dance, ROH The Era of Honor Begins)

6. American Dragon v. Low Ki (Round Robin Challenge Match #3 with Special Referee: Ken Shamrock, ROH Round Robin Challenge)

5. Bryan Danielson (c) v. Nigel McGuinness (c) (to Unify the ROH Pure Championship and the ROH World Championship, ROH Unified)

4. CM Punk (c) v. Christopher Daniels (for the ROH World Championship, ROH The Homecoming)

3. The Embassy v. Generation Next (Steel Cage Warfare Match, ROH Steel Cage Warfare)

2. Nigel McGuinness (c) v. KENTA (for the ROH World Championship, ROH 7th Anniversary Show)

1. Bryan Danielson (c) v. KENTA (for the ROH World Championship, ROH Glory by Honor V: Night 2)

[Indifferent Clox]

More people need to do this, but i doubt all that many have seen even ten. i will get my dvds together and make a list

[The Show Off]

More people need to do this, but i doubt all that many have seen even ten. i will get my dvds together and make a list

I'm sure more than a few have watched more than 10... I'm a geek though so I look at it from that geek perspective.

Oh yeah, one match that I loved that didn't make the top 10 is...

--Colt Cabana v. Homicide (Chicago Street Fight, ROH Better than Our Best)

That's probably one of the best brawls I've ever seen.

[Indifferent Clox]

I have that DVD

[The Show Off]

I have that DVD

ROH Better than Our Best is probably my favorite Ring of Honor card I've ever seen.

Homicide/Cabana
Danielson/Lance Storm
Strong & Aries/Blood Generation
Styles/Joe/Daniels/Jimmy Yang
Rave, Shelley & Yoshino/Dragon Kid, Horiguchi & Saito

I never thought I'd see a card better ROH card than Glory by Honor V: Night 2... But Better than out best is it.

I'm actually such a geek I could probably name my top 10 ROH cards let alone matches...

[Indifferent Clox]

I have GBH VI. i meant to get five but accidently got that instead. And it was pretty awesome it had misawa.

[Indifferent Clox]

Joe v. Kobashi would be up there.

[kareru]

CM Punk & Ace Steel vs. Dan Maff & BJ Whitmer (Chicago Street Fight - 7/24/04)

Generation Next vs. The Embassy (Steel Cage Warfare - 12/3/05)

Team ROH vs. Team CZW (Inter-Promotional Match - 4/22/06) one of the best brawls i have ever seen

Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe (Boston Street Fight - 8/10/07)

Paul London & Rudy Boy Gonzales vs. Michael Shane & Biohazard (Street Fight) - (11/16/02) i think its the match where london does a ssp off a ladder

[The Show Off]

CM Punk & Ace Steel vs. Dan Maff & BJ Whitmer (Chicago Street Fight - 7/24/04)

Generation Next vs. The Embassy (Steel Cage Warfare - 12/3/05)

Team ROH vs. Team CZW (Inter-Promotional Match - 4/22/06) one of the best brawls i have ever seen

Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe (Boston Street Fight - 8/10/07)

Paul London & Rudy Boy Gonzales vs. Michael Shane & Biohazard (Street Fight) - (11/16/02) i think its the match where london does a ssp off a ladder

I guess you got Blood Stained Honor as well... It's a good DVD.

[kareru]

I guess you got Blood Stained Honor as well... It's a good DVD.

lol, fuck yeah, its a wicked dvd

[Indifferent Clox]

I dled taht one, i ddin't like it nearly as much as any of the other ppvs

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I might do this later - haven't really watched anything since the WM weekend shows 2008 but I've seen most of it from before then.

The first match that immediately springs to mind for some reason is Aries vs Joe at Final Battle 04. Not the greatest match ever but the crowd energy, reactions etc are amazing.

[Waylander]

A few off the top of my head.

Joe/Punk
Joe/Kobashi
Danielson/Daniels/Ki
London/Shane (unscripted)
Danielson/Hero

[The Show Off]

I might do this later - haven't really watched anything since the WM weekend shows 2008 but I've seen most of it from before then.

The first match that immediately springs to mind for some reason is Aries vs Joe at Final Battle 04. Not the greatest match ever but the crowd energy, reactions etc are amazing.

Aries/Joe at Final Battle 2004 has one of my favorite finishes of any match. Just the urgency that Aries showed hitting all his signature moves in succession really sold how difficult it is to defeat Samoa Joe.

[The Show Off]

I'm bumping this...

[Chavo Classic]

There's a tonne of matches, but Briscoe VS Briscoe at the 5 Year Anniversary Finale Show was out of this world.

[The Show Off]

There's a tonne of matches, but Briscoe VS Briscoe at the 5 Year Anniversary Finale Show was out of this world.

I never saw that. I've heard it's good.

[Chavo Classic]

I never saw that. I've heard it's good.

They went all out, and nearly killed each other. You know, one of those moments when the crowd stops going bananas at an insane spot and a concerned silence descends.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

They went all out, and nearly killed each other. You know, one of those moments when the crowd stops going bananas at an insane spot and a concerned silence descends.

I haven't watched it in a while but I think I remember which bit you mean. Didn't Mark do a running dive clean over the top and they both crashed into the barrier? It sounds familiar in my head anyway.

[Chavo Classic]

I haven't watched it in a while but I think I remember which bit you mean. Didn't Mark do a running dive clean over the top and they both crashed into the barrier? It sounds familiar in my head anyway.

I think so - it was an attempted head scissors from the inside to the apron. They landed pretty badly.

[Heros Welcome]

CM Punk v. Austin Aries Death Before Dishonor III

London v. Styles Night of the Grudges

Low Ki v. KENTA Final Battle 2005

Homicide v. Necro Ring of Homicide ( Was there, SICK!)

ROH v. CZW Cage of Death Death Before Dishoner IV

Nigel v. Danielson Unified

Danielson v. KENTA GBHVN2

KoW v. Briscoes GBHVN2

Briscoes v. Steenerico Ladder War Man Up

Tyler Black v. Nigel Take No Prisoners

Danielson v. Go Live from Tokyo

Danielson v. Morishima Manhattan Mayhem II

Nigel v. Morishima Fighting Spirit

I could go on all day.

[The Show Off]

Low Ki v. KENTA Final Battle 2005



I've wanted to see that match for years but for the longest time ROH didn't sell Final Battle 2005 on their site.